Advantage may refer to: *

Advantage (debate) In competitive debate, an advantage is the way that the affirmative team refers to the positive consequences of adopting their position on the debate resolution. It is an argument structure that seeks to convince the judge that the affirmative ...

, an argument structure in competitive debate *

Mechanical advantage Mechanical advantage is a measure of the force amplification achieved by using a tool, mechanical device or machine system. The device trades off input forces against movement to obtain a desired amplification in the output force. The model for ...

, in engineering, the ratio of output force to input force on a system *

Advantage of terrain An advantage of terrain occurs when military personnel gain an advantage over an enemy by using or simply in spite of, the terrain around them. The term does not exclusively apply to battles and can be used more generally regarding entire campaig ...

, in military use, a superiority in elevation over an opposing force *

Advantage (cryptography) In cryptography, an adversary's advantage is a measure of how successfully it can attack a cryptographic algorithm, by distinguishing it from an idealized version of that type of algorithm. Note that in this context, the "Adversary (cryptography), ...

, a measure of the effectiveness of an enemy's code-breaking effort

Sport

* Advantage, in

tennis terminology This page is a glossary of tennis terminology. A * Ace: Serve where the tennis ball lands inside the '' service box'' and is not touched by the receiver; thus, a shot that is both a serve and a winner is an ace. Aces are usually powerful and ge ...

, when one player needs one more point to win the game * Advantage in football and rugby; decision made by officials in a game ''not'' to stop play after a rule infringement, because the opposing side has a better position if play continues normally. See, for example, entries in glossaries of

association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular f ...

rugby union Rugby union football, commonly known simply as rugby union in English-speaking countries and rugby 15/XV in non-English-speaking world, Anglophone Europe, or often just rugby, is a Contact sport#Terminology, close-contact team sport that orig ...

, and

rugby league Rugby league football, commonly known as rugby league in English-speaking countries and rugby 13/XIII in non-Anglophone Europe, is a contact sport, full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular Rugby league playin ...

terms

Arts and entertainment

* ''Advantage'' (film), a 1977 Bulgarian film *''The Advantage : Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business'', book by Patrick Lencioni

Music

* ''Advantage'' (album), a 1983 post-punk album by the English band Clock DVA *

Advantage (band) Grown at Home was a British ska punk band, tipped as "the new market leaders for their genre in this country, with a nationwide fanbase to back their unsurmountable popularity". The band formed in 2002 in Stafford. Biography After forming in 20 ...

, an English brass rock band (fl. 2000s) *

The Advantage (band) The Advantage is an American rock band from Sacramento, California that formed in 1998 and specialises in doing covers of music from old NES games, also known as Nintendocore. The band is named after the NES joystick controller of the same nam ...

* ''The Advantage'' (album)

Ships

* HMS ''Advantage'', one of three ships of the British Navy

Brands

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, a database product from Sybase iAnywhere *

Imidacloprid Imidacloprid is a systemic insecticide belonging to a class of chemicals called the neonicotinoids which act on the central nervous system of insects. The chemical works by interfering with the transmission of stimuli in the insect nervous system. ...

(''Advantage'' or ''Advantage Flea Killer''), a flea poison for pets *

Gillig Gillig (formerly Gillig Brothers) is an American designer and Bus manufacturing, manufacturer of buses. The company headquarters, along with its manufacturing operations, is located in Livermore, California (in the East Bay (San Francisco Bay A ...

Advantage, a low-floor transit bus * Advantage, later known as Alpen Wheat Flakes, a breakfast cereal *

Advantage Rent a Car Advantage Rent a Car is a privately held American car rental company headquartered in Orlando, Florida. The company was founded in 1963 by Kenneth and Helen Walker as "$3.99 Car Rentals" and quickly expanded by purchasing several different car r ...

, a car rental company * GP Advantage, a brand of printer paper owned by

Georgia-Pacific Georgia-Pacific LLC is an American pulp and paper company based in Atlanta, Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia, and is one of the world's largest manufacturers and distributors of Tissue paper, tissue, Pulp (paper), pulp, paper, toilet and paper towe ...

NES Advantage The NES Advantage is an arcade style controller manufactured by Asciiware and released by Nintendo for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1987.Nintendo Power: "Also from Asciiware, who actually made the NES Advantage that Nintendo of America t ...

, a joystick for the Nintendo Entertainment System * Super Advantage, a joystick for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System {{disambiguation